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Nextcloud and OpenCloud give you what Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Google Drive give you, file sync and share across every device, on a platform you own. We host them in our own UK data centres, or install and manage them on your own servers, and connect them to the rest of your systems.
Your files stay where you decide, under your jurisdiction, in open formats and on open source software, with the same engineers looking after the platform whether it runs in our building or yours.
A complete collaboration platform: files synchronised to every desktop and phone, sharing inside and outside the organisation, Talk for chat and video calls, Groupware for calendars, contacts and mail, and office documents edited in the browser. Nextcloud Office is now powered by Euro-Office, and runs on the desktop as well as the browser. Released under the AGPLv3.
The right choice when you want one platform to replace a whole cloud workplace.
A focused, modern file sync and share platform, forked from ownCloud Infinite Scale in January 2025 and developed by OpenCloud GmbH, part of the Heinlein Group in Berlin. It concentrates on files, spaces for teams and projects, and sharing, and it is built to scale. Released under the Apache 2.0 and AGPLv3 licences.
The right choice when what you need is fast, dependable file storage and sharing, and nothing you will not use.
Your instance runs in our own UK data centres, on infrastructure we operate ourselves. We handle the updates, security, backups and monitoring, and you get the platform without running a server.
We install it on your own servers or virtualisation platform and manage it there, so the data never leaves your building. The care is the same as a hosted instance: patched, backed up, monitored and supported.
A file platform is only as useful as what it connects to. We build and support the integrations that make it part of how you already work.
Accounts from your LDAP or Active Directory, and single sign-on over SAML or OIDC, so joiners and leavers are handled in one place.
Collabora Online, ONLYOFFICE or Euro-Office for editing and co-editing in the browser. See office suites.
Files alongside secure messaging on Matrix, run by the same team on the same terms.
Connected to your mail, with calendars and contacts that synchronise to the devices your staff already use.
External storage mounted into the platform, including GEN storage and your own file servers.
Connections into your business applications through the platform's APIs, built by our development team.
Open source software is free to download and free to use, in a business as much as at home, with no licence fee and no count of seats. That freedom is real, and it is why so much of the world's infrastructure runs on it.
It is not free to make. Every release is the work of developers, testers and translators, and of the foundations and companies that pay them. A project that only ever gives and never receives eventually runs out of the people and the money that keep it going, and the software you rely on today is only there tomorrow if enough of the organisations using it put something back.
So our advice is simple. If an open source project works for you and your organisation benefits from it, support the people behind it: a donation to the foundation that runs it, a subscription from the company that develops it, or a contribution of your own, whether that is code, testing, documentation, translation or a well reported bug. It costs a fraction of the licence it replaces, and it keeps the choice you have made open to you and everyone else.
Nextcloud when you want a whole workplace in one platform: files, chat and video calls, calendars, contacts, mail and office documents. OpenCloud when what you need is fast, focused file sync and share that scales well, without the rest. We run both, and we will recommend one after looking at how your teams actually work.
Yes. We host Nextcloud and OpenCloud in our own UK data centres, on infrastructure we run ourselves, and manage the whole platform for you: updates, security, backups and monitoring.
Yes. We install and manage it on your own premises, on your hardware or your virtualisation platform, so the data never leaves your building, and we look after it exactly as we would a hosted instance.
Yes. We integrate it with your directory, LDAP or Active Directory, and with single sign-on over SAML or OIDC, so staff use the accounts they already have and leavers lose access in one place.
Yes. Nextcloud and OpenCloud both work with browser-based office editors, Collabora Online, ONLYOFFICE and Euro-Office among them, so documents open and co-edit where they are stored. Our Office page covers the choice between them.
Yes. Integration is a large part of what we do: office editors, Matrix messaging, email and calendars, external storage and your own business systems through the platform's APIs, all built and supported by the same team.